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            <title><![CDATA[Infantino Defends His FIFA Support, Says Majority Opinion Must Be Respected]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[FIFA President Gianni Infantino laughs off a question about whether he has considered resigning. In a rare interview, the Swiss says he has strong support among football associations. “We must respect the opinions of the vast majority,” he says.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 12:00:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sources: African football leaders sound out Sweden’s Mattias Grafström for FIFA presidency bid]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Two top figures in African football are said to have sounded out FIFA Secretary General, the Swede Mattias Grafström, about whether he might consider running against the scandal-plagued Gianni Infantino in the upcoming presidential election.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:19:37 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[New Zealand withdraws support for Infantino, defying Oceania federation]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[New Zealand (NZF) is withdrawing its support for FIFA President Gianni Infantino, in a move that has angered the Oceania confederation, which continues to back Infantino despite his controversial plan to sell shares of the World Cup to private investors.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:46:55 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[FIFA leaders apologize over botched World Cup investment plan, warn against attacks on integrity]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[FIFA President Gianni Infantino and Swedish Secretary General Mattias Grafström apologized for the botched World Cup plan, while FIFA warned that the federation would not tolerate "attacks on its integrity."]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:27:19 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Infantino Faces FIFA Backlash as Support Erodes Ahead of 2027 Election]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[From around 200 supporting associations to calls for resignation. Gianni Infantino's dominance is now crumbling - in a FIFA system that has benefited him for a decade. It is a system he inherited from his predecessors, says sports policy analyst Stanis Elsborg.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:48:53 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia's World Championship tactic: Favoring small and poor]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia's road to the World Championship 2034 goes via, for example, the US Virgin Islands – a blacklisted tax haven with one of the world's worst national teams. The Saudis have 44 cooperation agreements with mainly poor football associations that have voting rights within Fifa.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 04:35:11 GMT</pubDate>
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